Founding Fathers

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Across
  1. 1. His wife told him to consider giving women rights
  2. 4. a renowned scholar who came to America from Scotland to run the College of New Jersey –later Princeton
  3. 8. took credit for the design of the United States flagtook credit for the design of the United States flag
  4. 9. responsible for proposing the resolution to create the various Cabinet positions within the Executive Branch of our government and twelve amendments to the Constitution of which ten became the Bill of Rights
Down
  1. 1. People ask for this as a signature
  2. 2. didn’t sign the Declaration because he was busy commanding the Continental Army, a post he had been given in June 1775
  3. 3. A very famous inventor in the 1700s
  4. 5. one of the first Justices appointed to the Supreme Court and the only justice ever to be jailed
  5. 6. the last surviving signer of the Declaration, dying in 1832 at the ripe old age of 95
  6. 7. died on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration, July 4, 1826 just like John Adams